Postcard from Kissimmee: Trying to maintain perspective

The season’s changing in the suburbs of Disney World. Can you feel it?

We’re going from the season of no reaction to the season of overreaction, from watching a pitcher throw a bullpen and hearing, “Oh, good. His arm is still attached at a ball-and-socket joint,” to watching a ticketed reserve get two hits against a ticketed Class AA reliever and clearing space in the rafters.

The Astros will have one more traditional workout and one quickie, and then it’s on to the scrimmage and the Grapefruit League games. Covering those will be a difficult balancing job. How to give the people 900 miles away some insight into what happened without overplaying the unimportant. I saw an interesting rule on Twitter today. Anyone who is live-tweeting intrasquad scrimmages will be unfollowed, and that seems like a pretty good place to start.